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Meanings of anthropophagy in anglès

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Practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

antropofàgia

The eating of human flesh.

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Usage of anthropophagy in anglès
1
According to anthropophagy, negroes are best, and white people most detestable.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881
2
As a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one.
Orthodoxy
3
This is called anthropophagy or cannibalism, and is a time-honored custom among some of the tribes of Africa.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
4
It's what anthropologists call ritual anthropophagy.
Fatal Voyage
5
The natives, if they return to their tribe (al monte), or find themselves pressed by hunger, soon resume their old habits of anthropophagy.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...